An everyday history of Upstate South Carolina from 1971 - 1975
1971
WEST PROMISES ‘COLOR-BLIND’ POLICY: STATE’S 76TH GOVERNOR INAUGURATED
Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Wednesday, January 20, 1971
Columbia (AP) – John Carl West took over as South Carolina’s 76th governor Tuesday, promising to lead the state into its fourth century with an administration that is ‘totally color-blind.’
The 48-year-old Camden attorney was inaugurated in freezing weather on the windraked steps of the State Capitol. The ceremony was witnessed by about 6,000 chilled onlookers, including state legislators, bandsmen and security guards.
‘We can, and we shall, in the next four years, eliminate from our government any vestige of discrimination because of race, creed, sex, religion, or any other barrier to fairness ofr all citizens,’ the new governor declared.
‘We pledged to minority groups no special status other than full-fledged responsibility in a government that is totally color-blind,’ Gov. West added. Backing up pledges made during his campaign, the balding chief executive outlined goals to eliminate hunger, malnutrition and illiteracy, and far-reaching programs for strengthening law enforcement, environmental protection and industrial and agricultural development…
South Carolina was balsted (sic) Saturday by a large winter storm that raked the Eastern United States with snow, high winds and numbing cold.
Snow accumulations of more than two inches were reported in the northwest portion of South Carolina and cold, gusty winds of more than 30 miles per hour roared in the rest of the state.
Light snow flurries were registered as far downstate as Columbia.
Travelers warnings were in effect for the northern portion of South Carolina and gale warnings were posted along the coast. Small craft warnings were put up on lakes. Travelers warnings were to end Saturday night.
Light snow was still falling Saturday afternoon over most of the mountains and Upper Piedmont. Flurries continued on into the evening.
Snowfall amounts received up to 3 p.m. were two inches at Walhalla, one and one-half inches at Anderson, two inches at Pickens and one inch at Greer.
Cold wave warnings were issued for the entire state with temperatures Saturday night expected to range from the teens in the northwest to around 30 on the coast.
Strong winds clocked at 20 to 30 miles per hour were registered over most of the state and gusts of more than 40 miles per hour were recorded in some locations.
Effects of the storm were expected to wane Sunday as the system moved northeast along the coast to New England.
Sunny but cold weather was forecast for South Carolina Sunday with temperatures in the 30s and 40s.
Tom Dunn Retires Following 44 Years With State Highway Debt.
Tom Dunn has retired following forty-four years with the South Carolina State Highway Department.
"Tom", as he is known to his many friends, never meets a stranger. He is a cheerful extrovert who fits into any situation with his wit and humor. He is also famous for practical jokes.
Mr. Dun went to work with the State Highway Maintenance Department forty-four years ago in Pickens County as a laborer. He was promoted to mechanic in November 1948. He was again promoted to foreman in November 1950, the position he held until retirement February 1, 1971.
He is married to the former Evangeline Dorr and they reside at Route 6, Easley, in their comfortable rural home. They have two children, Thomas Earle, and Frances Campbell, both of Easley. They also have two grandchildren, Royce and Kay Campbell.
Vol 100 No. 41 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, February 25 1971
Conservation Award to Easley Man
Clemson - Lehman M. "Frosty" Bauknight Jr., 57, agricultural economics professor at Clemson University, has been named South Carolina's "Conservation Educator of the Year" in the governor's conservation achievement awards program.
The program is sponsored by Sears Roebuck Foundation under auspices of the S.C. Wildlife Federation and the National Wildlife Federation.
Gov. John West presented the award to Prof. Bauknight at ceremonies in Columbia.
The award citation said, "Probably no other one man in the South Carolina has been more instrumental in stimulating wide interest in conservation of our natural resources than ... this gifted teacher."
A native of Latta and resident of Easley, Mr Bauknight in 1951 began a course, "Conservation of Natural Resources," which regularly enrolls more than 150 students from all departments of the university.
Vol 100 No.42 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, March 4 1951
Council Talks Radio Communications
During the bi-monthly meet of the Pickens county council Monday night in the conference room of the courthouse, Chairman Marion Owens disclosed details of a recent meeting between the council and William E. Rabon, Division of Emergency Health Services of the state board of Health, along with several others, concerning additional funds for improvement of the county ambulance communications equipment.
Others attending the discussion meeting were Harold Clayton of Central, Canon Memorial Baptist hospital administrator Glen Martin, Easley Baptist Hospital head Sherman Hendricks, Jerry Trapnell of Greenville, Don Capell of Weldon Day.
Mr. Owens said much discussion was had concerning the aspects of various communications systems and that it is thought funnds for this purpose can be had on a matching basis 50-50 from the Safety Division of the State Highway Department.
The multi-county HEAR system of emergency communications vehicles and stations was also discussed.
Chairman Owens said no application was made at the meeting but the council is looking into the matter further and studies will be made to determine Pickens County's needs.
Vol 100 No.43 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, March 111971
$900 Walkie Talkie Stolen
Entry was made in the Pickens office of the S.C. Wildlife Resources Department, ocated on Suoth Lewis St., next door to Morris & Co., and thieves made off with a walkie-talkie valued at $900 and a tape recorder. Also removed was an adding macine, however, it was later found under a truck parked next to the building.
Pickens Police Chief Wesley Stone said entry was made last Friday night through the back door of an adjoining building. The culprits then removed the hinges from a door which connects the two buildings to gain entry.
The county sheriff's office also reported two break-ins. The former Ossie Breazale Store on the Walhalla highway, not unoccupied and owned by Wallace Finley, was entered and a cash register and weighing scales were reported as missing.
The Wyatt Welborn Midway Service Station on Highway 123 at Easley was entered Saturday night by breaking out a glass on the front door. Among the missing items were cigarette lighters, wallets, watches, pocket knives and cigars
Vol. 100 No.43 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, March 11 1971
MEASLES OUTBREAK REPORTED
The Spartanburg Herald, Thurs., April 15, 1971
Columbia (AP) – The South Carolina Board of Health Wednesday warned that an outbreak of ‘red’ measles which has invaded Seneca is heading toward Walhalla in Oconee County.
A Spokesman said the outbreak in Oconee County began in Westminster with several cases occurring among elementary school children.
Two Seneca physicians reported to the Board of Health Monday they had seen 19 measles cases. Most were in six to eight-year-old children. Prior to this week, only eight cases of the measles had been reported during 1971 in Oconee County.
Red measles generally last from seven to 10 days, but the board warned that it often results in serious complications including ear infection, brain damage or pneumonia. Four persons died from the disease in South Carolina last year including three children.
The Daily Item, Sumter S.C., Tuesday, May 18, 1971
Lexington, S.C. (AP) – A seventh murder was being charged today to William R. Pierce Jr., 39, this one that of Kathy Jo Anderson, 17, of West Columbia last Dec. 22.
The Swainsboro, Ga., native is being held at Baxley, Ga., on warrants charging him with four Georgia murders and two others of young girls in South Carolina.
Miss Anderson’s abandoned car was found by a road outside West Columbia. Later hunters stumbled across her body in a wooded area.
Previously Pierce was charged with murder in the death last summer of a North Augusta baby sitter, Ann Goodwin, 19, fatally shot; and in the Dec. 19 death of Margaret Cuttino, 13, daughter of State Rep. and Mrs. James Cuttino Jr., of Sumter.
Miss Cuttino disappeared while walking to a school. Her body was found Dec. 30 in a wooded area of Sumter County.
Lexington County Sheriff Carroll W. Day announced Monday that he is issuing the warrant in Miss Anderson’s death.
Columbia (AP) – The Senate passed and sent the House Wednesday a bulky bill revising South Carolina laws dealing with drug abuse, providing stiffer penalties for pushers of hard drugs and more lenient treatment for users of marijuana and other ‘soft’ drugs.
Tacked on the measure was an amendment by Sen. James B. Stephen of Spartanburg requiring that all fines resulting from drug violations be remitted to the State Commission on Narcotics, which would be established under the act, for use in the treatment of addicts.
The bill is sponsored by a special committee, headed by Sen. Ralph Gasque of Marion, which made an extensive study of drug abuse in South Carolina and reported that the state faces a major problem in that area.
Given final approval by the Senate was a house-passed bill authorizing Clemson University to relocate the Pee Dee Agricultural Experiment Station on the outskirts of Florence to a site on the Florence-Darlington county line.
Tentatively approved on second reading was a bill increasing the fee which uninsured drivers must pay from $50 to $100 annually (sic). It also permits automobile liability insurance companies to charge their policyholders a small fee for coverage against uninsured motorists. The companies now must provide that endorsement without charge.
Also tentatively approved was a bill requiring mandatory programs in all school districts for the education of physically and mentally handicapped children. The programs would be under the overall supervision of the State Department of Education, with the commission for the Blind having authority in programs for the visually handicapped.
Still another bill winning provisional approval would establish a pool of insurance companies to apportion the risk and provide windstorm coverage for homeowners in coastal counties.
Greenville, S.C. (AP) The first Negro member of any major athletic coaching staff at a predominantly white college in South Carolina will be John Jones, to be assistant basketball coach at Furman.
Successful with a 73-14 record in three seasons at Carver High School in Columbus, Ga., Jones will follow his star 7-food center, Fessor Leonard, who signed an athletic scholarship at Furman several weeks ago.
Through telephone and freight service appeared to be about normal in South Carolina Saturday for the struck Southern Bell system and for the Southern Railway.
But local telephone installation and maintenance, and local freight service, were suffering.
‘We have about 40 per cent of our 4,200 strike eligible workers on the job,’ a Southern Bell spokesman said. ‘Long distance service is being maintained and local service is going through as usual.
‘But we are way behind on installations and our repair work is behind usual schedules.’
The South Carolina workers joined some 400,000 Bell System members of the Communications Workers of America AFL-CIO in going on strike Wednesday for better terms in a new work contract.
‘We had about 35 per cent worker turnout the first day,’ the Bell spokesman said, ‘and that has increased each day until, through Friday, it had risen to 40 per cent.’
Vandalism reported included cutting of cables in Charleston, Bennettsville and Spartanburg areas, and damage to a cross box at Orangeburg, but the spokesman said all have been repaired.
Pickets continued to walk the lines at Southern Bell building throughout the state.
The railroad strike began Thursday, affecting only the Southern in the Palmetto State.
A spokesman said pickets have been in evidence at depots and yards at Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg and Rock Hill.
Striking for a better work contract are members of the United Transportation Union made up of switchmen. But members of the other railroad workers brotherhoods are observing the picket lines.
Despite the pickets, a spokesman for the railway said its through freights are moving as usual through the state, but local freight services has been virtually eliminated.
Available officials of the Southern Railway were unable to estimate just how many workers were off the job by striking or by observing picket lines, but a spokesman said ‘most of them.’
In both the telephone and railroad strikes, supervisory personnel have pitched in to keep service going.
Officials of neither the rail road or the telephone company cared to predict what the situation may be if the strikes stretch out. Both unions were reported to be dickering with management for further negotiations and possible settlements.
Negotiators for the telephone company are in Atlanta and for the railway are in Washington.
Florence Times—Tri Cities Daily, Sunday Morning, November 29, 1971
Columbia, S.C. (AP) – Underdog Clemson struck for 17 points in the second quarter and then relied on a rugged defense to hold on for a 17-7 football victory over old, intrastate rival South Carolina this windy, cold Saturday afternoon.
A crowd of 57,242, the largest ever to see a football game in South Carolina, jammed the newly-enlarged Carolina Stadium to watch the 69th renewal of this bitter rivalry that started back in 1869.
Clemson, under second-year coach Hootie Ingram shackled the South Carolina offense with a hard-charging line and an alert secondary that picked off six passes.
Clemson was stopped in its first serious offensive thrust at the South Carolina one-foot line, when the Tigers failed to get over in four tries from the five-yard-line.
But, from then on it was a Clemson show.
First, it was kicking specialist Eddie Seigler who put the Tigers on the scoreboard with a 52-yard field goal against a stiff breeze, setting an all-time Clemson record.
Clemson got another chance midway of the second period when Ben Anderson intercepted a Gamecock pass and gave the Tigers the ball only 34 yards from the goal line.
Clemson needed only seven plays to move in for the touchdown with halfback Smiley Sanders going the final yard.
The fired-up Tigers then drove 64 yards in 13 plays for another touchdown, climaxed by a 10-yard pass from Tommy Kendrick to tight end John McMakin.
South Carolina struck back the first time it had the ball in the second half, driving 59 yards in 14 plays with fullback Tommy Simmons going over from the on-yard-line.
UPPER RESPIRATORY ILLNESS REPORTED THROUGHOUT STATE
Evening Herald, Tuesday, January 25, 1972
Columbia, S.C. (AP) – While laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza are rare, incidents of upper respiratory illness (URI), with symptoms almost identical to those of flu, are being reported throughout South Carolina.
Incidents of URI are being reported at the Universities of South Carolina and Clemson, The Citadel, and in Sumter, Charleston, Hampton, York, Greenville, Lancaster and Columbia.
Health officials say absenteeism exists throughout the state in public and private schools, and in industry.
Dr. Sally McCants, director of the USC infirmary, reports URI of ‘epidemic proportions has been found in the student body.’
She said the disearse at USC was not influenza but a type of URI caused by ‘streptococcus pneumoniae.’
Dr. McCants said the strep organism causes symptoms almost identical with fly. Temperatures run about 101 to 102 degrees for a day or so until they are brought down by medication.
She said culture tests had been made on virtually all of the students who had been treated at the university. More than 20 students were in bed with URI, and about 20 others were treated Monday, she said.
Dr. Judson Hair at Clemson University reports a similar occurrence of sick students with some 25 in bed and about 40 others treated since Monday night.
Dr. Hair said he was sending cultures to the State Board of Health for evaluation, but he said he feels ‘sure its some type of flu, probably an Asian strain.’
Tuomey Hospital in Sumter has also reported an increase in URI cases during the week, and the hospital has limited visitors to a patient’s immediate family to stop the spread of the disease.
In Greenville, Dr. Ronald Penick, director of the Greenville County Health Department, said ‘We are beginning to get some flu basically a mixed disease pattern.’
Penick reported a marked increase in school absenteeism as well as in the five industries the health department checks as an indicator of absences. But he said there were no laboratory tests confirming the illnesses were flu.
Clemson, S.C. (AP) – Joseph Hutchinson of Estill last week was elected the first black president of the student body at Clemson University.
Hutchinson, a 19-year-old industrial management major, polled 658 votes, five more than the 653 cast for his opponent in the run-off election with Samuel F. Crews of Hampton.
There were 1,313 votes cast in the election, including two write-in candidates.
Hutchinson is expected to take office later this spring.
Clemson has an enrollment of 7,615 students of which about 50 are black.
Last spring the University of South Carolina elected its first black student body president.
If you like a view of the water, you won’t be disappointed at Sadlers Creek State Park near Anderson.
One of South Carolina’s newest state parks and still in the development stage, Sadlers Creek is on a peninsula of the huge Hartwell Reservoir. Spread over 400 acres of land, this comparatively small park has eight miles of shoreline and would be an island except for a neck of land about 150 yards wide which links it with the mainland.
Sadlers Creek is 13 miles southwest of Anderson on state route 187, which connects with U.S. 29 about two miles south of the park. It is also approximately 12 miles from Interstate 85.
Much of the park area was formerly used as farm land, thus providing large open areas which will be planted with grass and beautified. These open areas cover about half the park, but the remainder is heavily wooded almost to the water’s edge. About 40 per cent of the trees are pine and the remainder are hardwoods, including oak, dogwood and hickory.
Several old wagon trails meander through the woods and offer excellent opportunities for nature study and exploration.
A recently developed swimming area in the park includes swimming area with bathhouse, pavilion and rest rooms. The pavilion recently won a national architectural award for excellence of design.
One of the big attractions at Sadlers Creek is the fishing. The park has a paved boat launching ramp from which fishermen can cast off to try their luck with the crappie, bream, catfish, large and small-mouth bass in the reservoir.
Those who tire of fishing in the open water can nudge their boats along the shores of two islands that are part of the park, or even try their luck from the reservoir shore. Bank fishing is a popular pastime and the water is reached from the four miles of paved road that wind through the park.
Walking around the park along the edge of the water is another popular pursuit. The walking is rugged in a few areas, but fishermen have blazed a fairly good route most of the way.
A 25-mile camping area is located on one of the wooded peninsulas. Each site has water and electrical hookups, picnic table and grill. A modern restroom with hot and cold showers is located in the camping area. An Indian burial ground is located near the camping area.
Visitors to Sadlers Creek can take interesting side trips to the City of Anderson, the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are only an hour’s drive away and visible on a clear day; historic Pendleton and the Clemson University Campus.
James Rinehart is superintendent of Sadlers Creek State Park. He may be contacted by writing him at the park, Route 4, Anderson, S.C. or by telephone at Anderson , 226-8950.
Greenville, S.C. (AP) Police say they are looking for a Negro gunman and a white woman who drove the getaway car in a bank holdup.
A Greenville branch of the South Carolina National Bank was held up at gunpoint Tuesday by a Negro gunman for an amount of money officials declined to reveal.
Bank workers said the man walked in, demanded money from the tellers, then ran out.
A witness reported seeing a Negro run from the bank and get in a car in the bank parking lot.
Greenville, S.C. (AP) – The FBI says two area bank robberies have been solved with the arrest Wednesday of a Greenville man.
A spokesman identified the man as Obed Jones Jr.
The FBI said Jones is charged with robbing the Hampton-Taylors branch of the South Carolina National Bank of $1,700 Tuesday, and the Donaldson Park branch of the same bank of $1,600 Feb. 11.
GREENVILLE DOCTOR, SEVEN OTHERS CITED IN HEROINE CASE
The Spartanburg Herald, Friday, May 12, 1972
Greenville – A Greenville physician and seven other persons were arrested Wednesday on charges of selling heroin to an undercover agent of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Dr. William Sloan Gandy, 46, of 105 Nichols St., a physician was arrested on a bench warrant issued May 3 by Circuit Judge Frank Eppes after Gandy and some of the others were secretly indicted by the Greenville Grand Jury.
Gandy is charged with selling heroin to the federal undercover agent on two occasions.
Others who were indicted for selling heroin and arrested Wednesday on bench warrants were Lula Mae Hunter, 23 of 18-C Lullwater Apartments; Lavonia Bowens, 22, of 42 Baxter St.; Willie Lattimore, 37, of 222 Alameda St., and Bennie Lewis Meridith, 20, of Terrace Drive.
Also arrested on charges of selling heroin were Jimmy Pollard, 20, and James Ballenger of Beard Street.
Alfred Dodd, alias ‘Schoolboy’, 30, was arrested on a Spartanburg County warrant charging the sale of heroin.
Federal agents, State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agents, and officers assigned to the Greenville Metropolitan Narcotic Enforcement Unit assembled just after 6 a.m. Wednesday morning and arrests and searches began soon after.
Circuit solicitor Thomas W. Greene said Wednesday afternoon that the system of getting grand jury indictments before persons are arrested has rarely been used in the past.
The solicitor said, ‘In South Carolina criminal charges can be initiated in two ways. One of the ways is to obtain an arrest warrant. This requires a preliminary hearing before the case goes to the grand jury and eventually to trial. When a defendant is arrested on an arrest warrant he is entitled to bond which can be set by any magistrate.
“The other method of initiating criminal charges—which has been seldom used—is to obtain an indictment from the grand jury which allows the arrest of the defendant on a bench warrant with bond set only by a circuit judge.
‘In recent drug cases, in order to maintain as much security as possible, it was determined by my office to initiate the charges by indictment and an appearance bond will be set in open court by the presiding judge,’ Greene said.
Court officials indicated that bond hearings are not likely to begin before Monday.
CHESTER SCHOOLS COULD BE AFFECTED BY PROPOSED MORATORIUM ON BUSING
Evening Herald, Mon., May 1, 1972
Washington (AP) – Chester County is one of seven school districts in South Carolina that would be affected by President Nixon’s proposed moratorium on court-ordered busing.
Districts under post-Swann desegregation plans that would could (sic) be affected, include:
NORTH CAROLINA: Alamance County, Bladen County, Burlington, Fayetteville, Forsyth County- Winston-Salem, Goldsboro, Granville County, Greensboro, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Nash County, New Bern, New Hanover County, Raleigh, Rocky Mount, Sanford, Shelby and Wayne County.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Aiken County, Chester County, Florence County No. 1, Marlboro County, Orangeburg County No. 5, Richland County No. 1 and Spartanburg County No. 7.
Edgecomb and Robeson counties in North Carolina were the only two districts that would be affected under the category of cases pending in courts but no trial on merits held yet.
Districts where desegregation plans have resulted in racial balance, but which would be included in the moratorium, are Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Salisbury and Winston-Salem in North Carolina, and Allendale County, Florence No. 2, Greenville, Greenwood No. 50 and Newberry County in South Carolina.
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania – Former Senate aide Bobby Baker was released on parole yesterday from the Federal Penitentiary in Lewisberg (sic), Pennsylvania. He served 17 months for tax evasion, theft and conspiracy to defraud the government. Baker was sentenced in 1967 on charged related to the misuse of his authority. After several appeals, he entered prison in January of last year. As secretary to the Senate Democratic majority, Baker was a key assistant to former President Johnson when Johnson was Senate Majority Leader. Without parole, Baker could not have been freed before next May. Baker’s career in Washington began when he arrived from Pickens, South Carolina and became a Senate page.
A strange and highly unusual two-headed lizard was found last week by Hubert Chappell, Rt. 4, Pickens, Belle Shoals Road.
Mr. Chappell was working in is garden when he turned over a large rock and the lizard ran out.
It was about two inches long and had a slick brown appearance with a head and two legs on each ends of the slim body.
Mr. Chappell said e tried to find the mate, but with no success.
The lizard was placed in a jar and was drawing varied comments since a two-headed lizard is unusual - to say the least.
Vol 102 No.8 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, July 6 1972
Name Building For War Hero
Another honor is being bestowed upon the late William A. McWhorter, Pickens County ative who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The family has been notified that the South Carolina National Guard Armory in Columbia wil be named in his honor in ceremonies to be conducted at Columbia on Friday, July 21, at 10 a.m.
Only a few months ago a theater and street at Fort Jackson was named in honor of the Liberty hero who gave his ifie during World War II in the Philippine Islands.
Vol 102 No.9 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, July 13 1972
DUKE POWER IS PLANNING NUCLEAR PLANT AT YORK
The Times-News, Hendersonville, N.C., Wed., July 26, 1972
York, S.C. (AP) – Duke Power Company, which found that trying to hide plans for a new nuclear power station was like trying to conceal an elephant in a telephone booth, today confirmed that it will build $700 million nuclear facility in York County.
It will be Duke Power’s third nuclear power station in the Carolinas in an ambitious program to more than double its generating capability over the next 18 years.
The announcement of the York County plant, made jointly by Duke Power and the South Carolina State Development Board, came at a luncheon in York.
The president of Duke Power, Carl Horn, Jr., said construction of the 2,360,000-kilowatt plant is expected to begin in 1974, with completion of its two nuclear units scheduled for 1979 and 1980.
The company first must win approval for the project from the Atomic Energy Commission.
Last week when Duke Power refused to confirm or deny news stories that the plant would be built in South Carolina, the company had not submitted an environmental impact study to the ACE, one of the initial steps required by the federal agency in such projects.
The proposed station, with two nuclear units, will be on Lake Wylie, 19 miles southwest of Charlotte near the South Carolina-North Carolina border.
The director of the South Carolina State Development Board, J. Bonner Manly, said the station will represent the largest investment ever in a single industrial facility in the Palmetto state.
According to a formula used by the Federal Power Commission, the company said, the new facility will prouce (sic) about $16 million a year in local an state taxes and $19 million in federal tax revenue.
Much of the prepared announcement dealt with assurances that the nuclear plant would be safe.
The company has been under fire from established environmentalists and back-yard conservationists alike on alleged lack of safety factors for Duke’s McGuire nuclear power station being constructed on Lake Norman of Charlotte.
The York County facility, to be called the Catawba Station, and the McGuired Station will be identical in size and design, according to the company. Each of Catawba’s two units will have a capability of 1,180 kilowatts, making them the largest electric generating units in South Carolina.
Duke Power’s first nuclear plant, the Oconee Station in northwest South Carolina, is scheduled to begin commercial operation next year.
The company said construction employment for the six-year Catawba Station project was expected to average about 1,500 with total construction payroll estimated $85 million.
The company’s senior vice president for engineering and construction, William S. Lee, said in the prepared announcement the facility will be designed for ‘highest reliability, safety and environmental protection.’
He said the reactor building will have a double shell design consisting of a stell inner lining and a concrete outer shield, and would include additional redundant barriers to hold the release of radioactivity to ‘trace amounts.’
Lee said the plant’s radioactive effect on the environment will ‘be so small as to be practically immeasurable.’ He said a person living continuously at the edge of the plant site would receive no more radiation in one year than a passenger would receive on a single jet flight to California.
Humane Society Active Since Organization Only Few Months
Almost 500 animals have been received by the Pickens County Humane Society since it's beginning in May of this year.
And not all of these animals have been dogs. There were cats, kittens, ponys and horses among the inventory.
Things at the temporary shelter near the Liberty Water Works are going "full speed ahead" now under the able direction of Buck Dodson of Liberty.
Mr. Dodson is a retired construction worker and is devoting full time to the activities of the society in seeing that animals in Pickens County are treated humanely and that unwanted animals are taken care of.
"We do not go out and get animals," says Mr. Dodson, "But we accept them here at the shelter if people bring them to us."
"The usual routine is to try and place the various animals received each week as soon as possible," he says.
Adoption fees for a dog or puppy are set at $5 each and for a cat or kitten the fees are $2 each
Vol 102 No.11 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, July 27 1972
THERE’S A CREDIBILITY GAP IN NUCLEAR POWER DEBATE
The Times-News, Hendersonville, N.C., Mon., July 31, 1972
Charlotte (AP) – Someone is not telling the truth in the debate over the safety of nuclear-powered electric generators.
Power companies in the Carolinas—Duke Power, Carolina Power and Light Co. and South Carolina Electric and Gas Co.—say the nuclear reactors are the safest and most pollution-free means of meeting the rising regional demand for electric power.
But, as fast as the utilities apply for licenses to build their nuclear generators, a small, shrill and loosely organized band of environmentalists are saying that the nuclear stations are loaded with unacceptable risks.
The first commercial generator to go operational in the Carolinas is the CP&L plant at Hartsville, S.C. Three more nuclear plants are under construction in the Carolinas, and several more are ready to be moved off the drawing boards.
The generators and the reactors that run them are getting larger—Duke’s Oconee, S.C. plant will be the largest commercial reactor in the country until it is surpassed by even bigger reactors now under construction. And, the sites of the power stations are getting closer to the major population centers they are intended to serve.
Both of these facts alarm a Charlotte research chemist named Jesse Riley. He is one of the leaders of the opposition to nuclear reactors.
Riley’s arguments, simply stated, is (sic) that engineering tolerances sufficient for safety in smaller reactors are not being updated as the reactors get larger. And, as the danger of an accident increases, he says, the reactors are being placed close enough to cities to cause major catastrophes.
Lee’s reaction, again simply stated, is that the gauntlet of licensing agencies which Duke Power Co. must run insures that the reactors will be safe. He says his company has the technical expertise and the opposition is either ignorant or misinformed.
The two meet frequently in hearings before various licensing agencies, presenting their arguments. Riley’s side has been able in many instances to delay the utilities’ plans and to modify them. but the power companies have never been told that they cannot build their reactors.
For the layman, the arguments for and against nuclear power quickly become tangled in a welter of ‘facts’ technical terms, hypothetical propositions, and conflicting statements.
Riley, for example, says the bolts used to hold the lid on the reactor building are not strong enough. If the temperature inside the reactor ever increased from a normal 600 degrees to 700 degrees, he says, the pressure inside would blow the lid off with catastrophic consequences.
He also questions the validity of safety standards for radiation, and for nuclear fuel waste disposal.
Lee refused to discuss the bolts in detail, saying the question was in litigation. As a general refutation, he cites the safety record of the industry to date. To pass licensing requirements, he says, the utilities must prove their reactor safety systems would work ‘even if three impossible things happened at the same time: a power loss, an earthquake, and a crack in the reactor.’
The chances of even one of them happening is negligible, Lee says. He calls the nuclear opposition ‘frightened and ignorant.’
The stakes in the battle are high. Lee says Duke has $700 million irretrievably invested in its nuclear program. He warns that a decision to abandon nuclear power would force people to get along with far less electricity than they now use.
The environmentalists say they would be glad to get by with less electricity if it averted the environmental threat they see from nuclear power.
It's not often that a mouse can kill a rattlesnake, however, L. A. Sloan has the details on the unusual occurance.
Mr. Sloan, his sons, Barry and Larry, together with David and Stanley Harper, were cruising their boat on lake Keowee last Thursday when they spotted a snake swimming in the water. They ran the boat across the snake which probably dazed it somewhat allowing them to get a choke rope around the reptile.
They took it to their home on Meece's Mill Road about two miles from Pickens where it was placed in an aquarium very much alive.
Later in the day, Mr. Sloan found a mouse in the mack yard and placed it in the aquarium, supposing the snake would eat it.
However, the following morning the mouse had turned the tables on the snake and had killed it by gnawing a hole behind it's head.
Mr. Sloan figured the sake must have been dazed by it's capture, since it's not often a mouse can kill a five-foot rattlesnake with 11 rattlers and a button.
Vol 102 No. 13 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, August 10 1972
CLEMSON SHOCKS GAMECOCKS
Palm Beach Post-Times, Sunday, November 26, 1972
Clemson, S.C. (AP) Linebacker Jimmy Williamson batted down a pass for an attempted two-point conversion late in the fourth quarter and preserved for underdog Clemson a 7-6 football victory over bitter intrastate rival South Carolina yesterday.
Clemson moved through the muck and mire of a cold and rainy afternoon for a 63-yard touchdown drive, sparked by the slashing running and pass-catching of tailback Smiley Sanders.
Sanders caught one pass for 12 yards, carried six times for 16 yards, including the last foot needed on 4th down for the score.
South Carolina struck back with about five minutes left as split end Eddie Muldrow took a screen pass and sped down the sidelines for 67 yards to the three. Jay Lynn Hodging carried it in from the three.
But when quarterback Doby Grossman rolled right and fired to a man open in the end zone for a two-pointer. Williamson speared it to the ground.
The Daily Item, Sumter, S.C., Wednesday, Nov. 22, 1972
Greenville, S.C. (AP) – The president of the South Carolina Beer Association says his group had no part of a former president’s statement that beer dealers are seeking a law to allow Sunday beer sales.
Judd B. Farr said in a prepared statement Tuesday he ‘absolutely refutes’ a statement by a R.V. Clarke of Florence, a former president of the association.
Clarke, a beer distributor, said recently the state’s beer industry has opened ‘an all-out program’ for Sunday beer sales, now barred by law.
Clarke also said that the Nov. 7 election approval by the voters of a minibottle amendment to legalize the sale of liquor by the drink had encouraged such a drive.
Farr, who said he was out of the state when the statement was made and had just returned, declared:
‘We have not been, and are not now, involved in the minibottle legislation.’
He said the association and its president is the ‘only spokesman for a majority of the beer industry in the state.’
Columbia, S.C. (AP) – Burt Lancaster will film his next movie in South Carolina on the campus of Clemson University, Gov. John West said Wednesday.
The announcement by West followed a visit to Hollywood, Calif., by a delegation from South Carolina, and a subsequent visit to the Palmetto State by Lancaster and his director, Roland Kibbe.
Lancaster appeared with West at a news conference last month and said he was ’80 per cent certain’ South Carolina would be chosen over several other prospective sites for the movie.
The story, set in a small college town, will be filmed on the Clemson campus, the city of Anderson and surrounding areas. West said Lancaster considered the Clemson area an ideal setting for the picture and filming will begin shortly after the start of the new year, West said.
According to West, the actor considered the availability of the South Carolina Educational Television Network a major factor for technical assistance.
The governor said ETV would coordinate state agency participation in the filming.
Technical personnel are expected in South Carolina within the next few days to begin preliminary work on the movie.
Clemson, S.C. (AP) A news conference was scheduled this afternoon at Clemson, reportedly for football Coach Hootie Ingram to announce his resignation and for Clemson officials to confirm that The Citadel Coach Jim ‘Red’ Parker will succeed Ingram.
Ingram refused to confirm or deny Monday reports that he had tendered his resignation.
However, several newspapers said the decision had been made, citing informed sources but not naming any source.
Prior to assuming the head job at Clemson in 1969, Ingram was an assistant to Frank Broyles at Arkansas.
He succeeded Frank Howard, then the dean of college football coaches, who had been at Clemson since 1940.
The Clemson stadium has been known as ‘Death Valley’ for years, but it was hardly that under Ingram, whose teams compiled a record of 12-21-0.
This years was another bad one for the Tigers, who had a 47 record, with the only really cause for any exultation coming at season’s end when Clemson edged arch-rival South Carolina, 7-6.
Ingram had not been expected to resign since he had four years left in his contract.
At the beginning of this season, before Clemson had been badly trounced by several so-so teams, Ingram said he was pleased with his recruiting over the past two year.
He had said his Tigers would not be outstanding in 1972, but would be competitive.
The Times News, Hendersonville, N.C., Wed., Dec. 6, 1972
Clemson, S.C. (AP) – The Citadel suddenly finds itself looking for a new football coach after James ‘Red’ Parker shifted Tuesday to another of South Carolina’s state-supported colleges, Clemson University.
Parker was announced Tuesday by Clemson as the successor to Cecil ‘Hootie’ Ingram, leaving although under no pressure despite three losing seasons. In fact, Clemson had added two years to Ingram’s original five year contract.
But Ingram told a news conference he is leaving the coaching field.
Parker, coach at The Citadel for seven seasons, will be meeting his successor at The Citadel first thing—Clemson’s opening game this fall is with The Citadel.
Parker told the news conference that his ‘players said they regret I’m leaving, but they told me that come September, I had better get ahold of my backsides because they’ll be coming at me.’
Ingram said although Clemson’s administration and alumni wanted him to stay, he had decided to make ‘the tough decision to leave coaching’ for one of several business opportunities on which he said he will decide soon.
The 39-year-old coach is a native of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was an assistant coach at Arkansas before coming to Clemson in 1969 as successor to the legendary Frank Howard, another Alabama native.
The 41-year-old Parker came to The Citadel in 1961 after serving as head coach at Arkansas A&M, his alma mater, has a 39-34 record in his seven seasons at the state’s military college.
Athletic director Bill McLellan of Clemson said Ingram’s decision to leave was regretted, ‘but I’ll stake my ob we have selected the right man to succeed him.’
Parker said he plans ‘as little upheaval as possible’ in the Clemson coaching staff. He said he will have to work with his Clemson players before deciding if he’ll retain the triple-option offense he has used at The Citadel.
He said recruiting will be his No. 1 priority, and that he plans to recruit ‘between the two oceans.’
All children entering kindergarten and the first grade this fall must have a "Certificate of Immunization" before school begins, according to Dr. R. W. Penick, Pickens County Health Officer.
"Because of a new state law, children without certificates wiill not be allowed to enter school." Dr. Penick warned.
"This certificate, which ust be signed by a private physician or the health department, shows that a child was received al the necessary immunization for diptheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, measles and German measles. For many youngsters, especially those who have never been immunized, it will take several months to get all the necessary immunizations. Therefore, we urge parents to check with their doctor or the Health Department as soon as possible for these shots," Dr. Penick said.
Vol 102 No.40 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, February 15 1973
Senators Oppose Mini-bottle Bill
Mini-Bottles
The South Carolina Senate last Wednesday tentatively approved by a 32-10 vote the mini-bottle amendment to permit the sale of liquor by the drink in S.C.
All four senators of this senatorial district - Ballenger, Garrison, McDonald and Harris P. Smith - were among the ten who opposed the measure.
Vol 102 No.40 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, February 15 1973
Surgical Miracle Performed On Porter
What is still described by doctors as a surgical miracle was performed in October on a Pickens man, Leland Wallace Porter, of the Twelve Mile community of Pickens County. Performed at the Greenville General Hospital by a widely recognized bone surgeon the operation until now has been a complete success, however, only half the operation has been done. Born in the Praters Creek community of Pickens, Wallace is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Porter. He is married to the former Frances Grant and has one son, MIchael, who is 10 years old.
Wallace said that at the age of 10 he was much too heavy for his age and after a fall he began having trouble with his hips. After suffering with them for almost a year he finally went to the doctor and found that both hip joints had been pulled out of their sockets and surgery was the only method of treatment. Surgery at that time, however, was far more complicated that it is now and his father decided against taking the risk, feeling that the young boy would outgrow his problem.
Time proved that part of that decision was true and after years he was able to walk without crutches, however, the joints only encased themselves in a hard gristle and hardly a day passed for the next 25 years but what he suffered almost unbearable pain.
According to the doctor the leg was spit from the waist almost to the knee. Several hooks were placed to hold the flesh out of the way. The entire hip joint was sawed off and thrown in the waste can, holes were drilled into the lower part of the leg bone and an entire new hip bone with a plastic socket was put in its place. The operation proved to be a complete success and in six days they had him up and giving him physical therapy.
Vol 102 No. 41 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, February 22 1973
Math Professor At U.S.C.
William J. Padgett, formerly of Pickens, has been promoted to Associate Professor with the math department at the University of S.C. He received his Masters degree at Clemson University, later transferring to Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Va, where he graduated in June, 1971, with a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics. He became associated with the University of S.C. in 1971.
He and his wife, the former Faye Swangham, and daughter, Carla, live at 261 Chartwell Drive in Columbia.
Vol 102 No. 46 The Pickens Sentinel March 29 1973
1974
Three Arrested In Bomb Threats
Three persons have been arrested in Easley after telephoned bomb threats were received at Easley high School last Wednesday.
The school was evacuated while police checked the area for a bomb, but none was found. The cases will be heard in Pickens County Court.
Easley Police Det. Jack Aiken said that Mrs. Marilyn Faye Martin, 17, of 308 McBee Ave. in Easley, was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of making bomb threats over the telephone to Easley High School. She was later released under a $5,000 bond.
Vol 104 No.3 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, May 30 1974
Vinson Sentences To Life Term After Pleading Guilty In Death
Virgil Preston Vinson was sentenced Monday, morning to serve two life terms in the state prison after pleading guilty on charges of kidnapping and murder in the disappearance and death last December of 12-year-old Tammy Denice Haynes of Liberty.
Pickens County Court officials told The Sentinel that Vinson would be eligible to apply for parole inn ten years, but that there was no guarantee that he would receive a parole. The procedure would be for Vinson to ask for parole, and send the application to the Pickens County Probation and Parole Office. After a field study by the Pickens office, a report would be sent to the State Parole Board for consideration.
Vol 104 No.4 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, June 6 1974
50-Year-Old Chapman Bridge Destroyed By Fire
The story continued to unravel this week after the historic Chapman Bridge in Keowee-Toxaway State Park was completely destroyed by fire Friday.
Arson experts from the Pickens County Sheriff's Department and from SLED were continuing their investigation Wednesday and Pickens County Seriff David Stone caled for information of anyone who had been seen in the park area prior to the blaze.
The 50-year-old bridge built by Pickens contractor James B. Craig once the link between Pickens and Oconee counties, but it was taken apart piece-by piece and moved to a site two miles south of Highway 11 in the state park several years ago when the Keowee River made way for Lake Keowee.
Vol 104 No.5 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, June 13 1974
First Republican Primary Outlined
Plans for the first Pickens County Republican Primary in history were finalized June 24 and County GOP Chairman Bob Nash was pleased to report. "We have three box managers for each of the county's 26 precincts."
Asked where he had to import volunteer workers for the primary voting from the Clemson-Central area to the parts of the county, Nash said, "No, we were able to find volunteers to help the Republican Party in most every precinct except Rocky Bottom. We appreciate this interest and support"
Estimates of the number who will vote in this initial Republican effort in Pickens County ranged from 500 to 2,000 and Nash himself was unwilling to make a firm estimate.
Vol 104 No. 8 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, July 4 1974
1975
Governor Edwards Plans Pickens Visit
Governor Edwards
Governor James Edwards will make his first post-inaugural speaking engagement in Pickens County at 8 p.m., Friday, March 7 when he is the featured speaker for the Pickens Jacees annual dinner.
The dinner, scheduled for the Pickens County Country Club, will be informal and many county officials will be in attendance, according to Clennono Hucks, Pickens Jaycees dinner chairman.
Edwards visited Pickens, Easley and Clemson during his election campaign, flying into Pickens County Airport for one appearance at Pickens City Hall. In the November election the Charleston dentist became the first Republican Gubernatorial candidate in modern history to carry Pickens county. Pickens county was the only county in the Third Congressional District to cast a majority of its votes for Governor Edwards.
Vol 104 No.39 The Pickens Sentinel Weds, February 5 1975
Pickens Announced Farm Service Center
The service center in Pickens, to be ocated at 304 Pendleton St., will be composed of representatives of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the Farmers Home Administration, the Soil Conservation Districts and the Soil Conservation Service. There will be seven full-time staff members.
Vol 104 No.42 The Pickens Sentinel Weds, February 26 1975
Pickens Employs Twice As Many As County For Pickens County Roads
The Sentinel has learned that the State Highway Department spent $595,749.88 on ordinary maintenance for roads in Pickens county during the past fiscal year 1973-1974. But total state spending on county roads has dropped since 1972.
Information provided by State Highway Department Public Information Director Jim Walker at the request of The Sentinel shows the state employed 58 persons in Pickens county during 1973-74 to maintain a primary road system of 214.77 miles and a secondary state road system of 475.47 miles.
In noting that the number of state highway department employes dropped from 62 in 1970-71 to 58 in 1973-74,. Walker pointed out, "These figures do not include HIghway Patrol personnel or employees assigned to driver licensing and motor vehicle license sales activities.
Vol 104 No.43 The Pickens Sentinel Weds, March 5 1975
Library Gains $900 Grant
The Pickens Cunty Library has received a federal grant of $900 for the maintenance and improvement of its magazine collection at the headquarters library in Easley.
The library currently subscirbes to 190 magazines and newspapers, 76 of which are paid for with federal grant funds. The library has added several new subscriptions this year, including Intellect, Ms, Smithsonian and National Tax Journal.
The library has a back file of magazines. Most magazines have been kept for seven years. The news magazines have been kept for seven years. The news magazines date back to 1959. National Geographic goes back to 1936. This collection is useful to students and others who are doing research.
"The library has an inviting place to relax and read magazines." according to James Swan, Director of the Pickens County Library. The public is encouraged to make use of this service.
An everyday history of Upstate South Carolina from 1971 - 1975
1971
WEST PROMISES ‘COLOR-BLIND’ POLICY: STATE’S 76TH GOVERNOR INAUGURATED
Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Wednesday, January 20, 1971
Columbia (AP) – John Carl West took over as South Carolina’s 76th governor Tuesday, promising to lead the state into its fourth century with an administration that is ‘totally color-blind.’
The 48-year-old Camden attorney was inaugurated in freezing weather on the windraked steps of the State Capitol. The ceremony was witnessed by about 6,000 chilled onlookers, including state legislators, bandsmen and security guards.
‘We can, and we shall, in the next four years, eliminate from our government any vestige of discrimination because of race, creed, sex, religion, or any other barrier to fairness ofr all citizens,’ the new governor declared.
‘We pledged to minority groups no special status other than full-fledged responsibility in a government that is totally color-blind,’ Gov. West added. Backing up pledges made during his campaign, the balding chief executive outlined goals to eliminate hunger, malnutrition and illiteracy, and far-reaching programs for strengthening law enforcement, environmental protection and industrial and agricultural development…
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WINTER STORM HITS S.C.
Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Sun., Feb. 14, 1971
South Carolina was balsted (sic) Saturday by a large winter storm that raked the Eastern United States with snow, high winds and numbing cold.
Snow accumulations of more than two inches were reported in the northwest portion of South Carolina and cold, gusty winds of more than 30 miles per hour roared in the rest of the state.
Light snow flurries were registered as far downstate as Columbia.
Travelers warnings were in effect for the northern portion of South Carolina and gale warnings were posted along the coast. Small craft warnings were put up on lakes. Travelers warnings were to end Saturday night.
Light snow was still falling Saturday afternoon over most of the mountains and Upper Piedmont. Flurries continued on into the evening.
Snowfall amounts received up to 3 p.m. were two inches at Walhalla, one and one-half inches at Anderson, two inches at Pickens and one inch at Greer.
Cold wave warnings were issued for the entire state with temperatures Saturday night expected to range from the teens in the northwest to around 30 on the coast.
Strong winds clocked at 20 to 30 miles per hour were registered over most of the state and gusts of more than 40 miles per hour were recorded in some locations.
Effects of the storm were expected to wane Sunday as the system moved northeast along the coast to New England.
Sunny but cold weather was forecast for South Carolina Sunday with temperatures in the 30s and 40s.
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Tom Dunn Retires Following 44 Years With State Highway Debt.
Tom Dunn has retired following forty-four years with the South Carolina State Highway Department.
"Tom", as he is known to his many friends, never meets a stranger. He is a cheerful extrovert who fits into any situation with his wit and humor. He is also famous for practical jokes.
Mr. Dun went to work with the State Highway Maintenance Department forty-four years ago in Pickens County as a laborer. He was promoted to mechanic in November 1948. He was again promoted to foreman in November 1950, the position he held until retirement February 1, 1971.
He is married to the former Evangeline Dorr and they reside at Route 6, Easley, in their comfortable rural home. They have two children, Thomas Earle, and Frances Campbell, both of Easley. They also have two grandchildren, Royce and Kay Campbell.
Vol 100 No. 41 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, February 25 1971
Conservation Award to Easley Man
Clemson - Lehman M. "Frosty" Bauknight Jr., 57, agricultural economics professor at Clemson University, has been named South Carolina's "Conservation Educator of the Year" in the governor's conservation achievement awards program.
The program is sponsored by Sears Roebuck Foundation under auspices of the S.C. Wildlife Federation and the National Wildlife Federation.
Gov. John West presented the award to Prof. Bauknight at ceremonies in Columbia.
The award citation said, "Probably no other one man in the South Carolina has been more instrumental in stimulating wide interest in conservation of our natural resources than ... this gifted teacher."
A native of Latta and resident of Easley, Mr Bauknight in 1951 began a course, "Conservation of Natural Resources," which regularly enrolls more than 150 students from all departments of the university.
Vol 100 No.42 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, March 4 1951
Council Talks Radio Communications
During the bi-monthly meet of the Pickens county council Monday night in the conference room of the courthouse, Chairman Marion Owens disclosed details of a recent meeting between the council and William E. Rabon, Division of Emergency Health Services of the state board of Health, along with several others, concerning additional funds for improvement of the county ambulance communications equipment.
Others attending the discussion meeting were Harold Clayton of Central, Canon Memorial Baptist hospital administrator Glen Martin, Easley Baptist Hospital head Sherman Hendricks, Jerry Trapnell of Greenville, Don Capell of Weldon Day.
Mr. Owens said much discussion was had concerning the aspects of various communications systems and that it is thought funnds for this purpose can be had on a matching basis 50-50 from the Safety Division of the State Highway Department.
The multi-county HEAR system of emergency communications vehicles and stations was also discussed.
Chairman Owens said no application was made at the meeting but the council is looking into the matter further and studies will be made to determine Pickens County's needs.
Vol 100 No.43 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, March 11 1971
$900 Walkie Talkie Stolen
Entry was made in the Pickens office of the S.C. Wildlife Resources Department, ocated on Suoth Lewis St., next door to Morris & Co., and thieves made off with a walkie-talkie valued at $900 and a tape recorder. Also removed was an adding macine, however, it was later found under a truck parked next to the building.
Pickens Police Chief Wesley Stone said entry was made last Friday night through the back door of an adjoining building. The culprits then removed the hinges from a door which connects the two buildings to gain entry.
The county sheriff's office also reported two break-ins. The former Ossie Breazale Store on the Walhalla highway, not unoccupied and owned by Wallace Finley, was entered and a cash register and weighing scales were reported as missing.
The Wyatt Welborn Midway Service Station on Highway 123 at Easley was entered Saturday night by breaking out a glass on the front door. Among the missing items were cigarette lighters, wallets, watches, pocket knives and cigars
Vol. 100 No.43 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, March 11 1971
MEASLES OUTBREAK REPORTED
The Spartanburg Herald, Thurs., April 15, 1971
Columbia (AP) – The South Carolina Board of Health Wednesday warned that an outbreak of ‘red’ measles which has invaded Seneca is heading toward Walhalla in Oconee County.
A Spokesman said the outbreak in Oconee County began in Westminster with several cases occurring among elementary school children.
Two Seneca physicians reported to the Board of Health Monday they had seen 19 measles cases. Most were in six to eight-year-old children. Prior to this week, only eight cases of the measles had been reported during 1971 in Oconee County.
Red measles generally last from seven to 10 days, but the board warned that it often results in serious complications including ear infection, brain damage or pneumonia. Four persons died from the disease in South Carolina last year including three children.
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PIERCE CHARGED IN SEVENTH DEATH
The Daily Item, Sumter S.C., Tuesday, May 18, 1971
Lexington, S.C. (AP) – A seventh murder was being charged today to William R. Pierce Jr., 39, this one that of Kathy Jo Anderson, 17, of West Columbia last Dec. 22.
The Swainsboro, Ga., native is being held at Baxley, Ga., on warrants charging him with four Georgia murders and two others of young girls in South Carolina.
Miss Anderson’s abandoned car was found by a road outside West Columbia. Later hunters stumbled across her body in a wooded area.
Previously Pierce was charged with murder in the death last summer of a North Augusta baby sitter, Ann Goodwin, 19, fatally shot; and in the Dec. 19 death of Margaret Cuttino, 13, daughter of State Rep. and Mrs. James Cuttino Jr., of Sumter.
Miss Cuttino disappeared while walking to a school. Her body was found Dec. 30 in a wooded area of Sumter County.
Lexington County Sheriff Carroll W. Day announced Monday that he is issuing the warrant in Miss Anderson’s death.
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CHANGE IN DRUG LAWS APPROVED BY S.C. SENATE
The Spartanburg Herald, Thurs., June 3, 1971
Columbia (AP) – The Senate passed and sent the House Wednesday a bulky bill revising South Carolina laws dealing with drug abuse, providing stiffer penalties for pushers of hard drugs and more lenient treatment for users of marijuana and other ‘soft’ drugs.
Tacked on the measure was an amendment by Sen. James B. Stephen of Spartanburg requiring that all fines resulting from drug violations be remitted to the State Commission on Narcotics, which would be established under the act, for use in the treatment of addicts.
The bill is sponsored by a special committee, headed by Sen. Ralph Gasque of Marion, which made an extensive study of drug abuse in South Carolina and reported that the state faces a major problem in that area.
Given final approval by the Senate was a house-passed bill authorizing Clemson University to relocate the Pee Dee Agricultural Experiment Station on the outskirts of Florence to a site on the Florence-Darlington county line.
Tentatively approved on second reading was a bill increasing the fee which uninsured drivers must pay from $50 to $100 annually (sic). It also permits automobile liability insurance companies to charge their policyholders a small fee for coverage against uninsured motorists. The companies now must provide that endorsement without charge.
Also tentatively approved was a bill requiring mandatory programs in all school districts for the education of physically and mentally handicapped children. The programs would be under the overall supervision of the State Department of Education, with the commission for the Blind having authority in programs for the visually handicapped.
Still another bill winning provisional approval would establish a pool of insurance companies to apportion the risk and provide windstorm coverage for homeowners in coastal counties.
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FURMAN HIRES COACH
Evening Herald, Thurs., July 1, 1971
Greenville, S.C. (AP) The first Negro member of any major athletic coaching staff at a predominantly white college in South Carolina will be John Jones, to be assistant basketball coach at Furman.
Successful with a 73-14 record in three seasons at Carver High School in Columbus, Ga., Jones will follow his star 7-food center, Fessor Leonard, who signed an athletic scholarship at Furman several weeks ago.
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STRIKES AFFECT SOME RAIL, TRAIN SERVICE
Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Sun., July 18, 1971
Through telephone and freight service appeared to be about normal in South Carolina Saturday for the struck Southern Bell system and for the Southern Railway.
But local telephone installation and maintenance, and local freight service, were suffering.
‘We have about 40 per cent of our 4,200 strike eligible workers on the job,’ a Southern Bell spokesman said. ‘Long distance service is being maintained and local service is going through as usual.
‘But we are way behind on installations and our repair work is behind usual schedules.’
The South Carolina workers joined some 400,000 Bell System members of the Communications Workers of America AFL-CIO in going on strike Wednesday for better terms in a new work contract.
‘We had about 35 per cent worker turnout the first day,’ the Bell spokesman said, ‘and that has increased each day until, through Friday, it had risen to 40 per cent.’
Vandalism reported included cutting of cables in Charleston, Bennettsville and Spartanburg areas, and damage to a cross box at Orangeburg, but the spokesman said all have been repaired.
Pickets continued to walk the lines at Southern Bell building throughout the state.
The railroad strike began Thursday, affecting only the Southern in the Palmetto State.
A spokesman said pickets have been in evidence at depots and yards at Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg and Rock Hill.
Striking for a better work contract are members of the United Transportation Union made up of switchmen. But members of the other railroad workers brotherhoods are observing the picket lines.
Despite the pickets, a spokesman for the railway said its through freights are moving as usual through the state, but local freight services has been virtually eliminated.
Available officials of the Southern Railway were unable to estimate just how many workers were off the job by striking or by observing picket lines, but a spokesman said ‘most of them.’
In both the telephone and railroad strikes, supervisory personnel have pitched in to keep service going.
Officials of neither the rail road or the telephone company cared to predict what the situation may be if the strikes stretch out. Both unions were reported to be dickering with management for further negotiations and possible settlements.
Negotiators for the telephone company are in Atlanta and for the railway are in Washington.
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UNDERDOG TIGERS SCORE VICTORY OVER GAMECOCKS
Florence Times—Tri Cities Daily, Sunday Morning, November 29, 1971
Columbia, S.C. (AP) – Underdog Clemson struck for 17 points in the second quarter and then relied on a rugged defense to hold on for a 17-7 football victory over old, intrastate rival South Carolina this windy, cold Saturday afternoon.
A crowd of 57,242, the largest ever to see a football game in South Carolina, jammed the newly-enlarged Carolina Stadium to watch the 69th renewal of this bitter rivalry that started back in 1869.
Clemson, under second-year coach Hootie Ingram shackled the South Carolina offense with a hard-charging line and an alert secondary that picked off six passes.
Clemson was stopped in its first serious offensive thrust at the South Carolina one-foot line, when the Tigers failed to get over in four tries from the five-yard-line.
But, from then on it was a Clemson show.
First, it was kicking specialist Eddie Seigler who put the Tigers on the scoreboard with a 52-yard field goal against a stiff breeze, setting an all-time Clemson record.
Clemson got another chance midway of the second period when Ben Anderson intercepted a Gamecock pass and gave the Tigers the ball only 34 yards from the goal line.
Clemson needed only seven plays to move in for the touchdown with halfback Smiley Sanders going the final yard.
The fired-up Tigers then drove 64 yards in 13 plays for another touchdown, climaxed by a 10-yard pass from Tommy Kendrick to tight end John McMakin.
South Carolina struck back the first time it had the ball in the second half, driving 59 yards in 14 plays with fullback Tommy Simmons going over from the on-yard-line.
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1972
UPPER RESPIRATORY ILLNESS REPORTED THROUGHOUT STATE
Evening Herald, Tuesday, January 25, 1972
Columbia, S.C. (AP) – While laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza are rare, incidents of upper respiratory illness (URI), with symptoms almost identical to those of flu, are being reported throughout South Carolina.
Incidents of URI are being reported at the Universities of South Carolina and Clemson, The Citadel, and in Sumter, Charleston, Hampton, York, Greenville, Lancaster and Columbia.
Health officials say absenteeism exists throughout the state in public and private schools, and in industry.
Dr. Sally McCants, director of the USC infirmary, reports URI of ‘epidemic proportions has been found in the student body.’
She said the disearse at USC was not influenza but a type of URI caused by ‘streptococcus pneumoniae.’
Dr. McCants said the strep organism causes symptoms almost identical with fly. Temperatures run about 101 to 102 degrees for a day or so until they are brought down by medication.
She said culture tests had been made on virtually all of the students who had been treated at the university. More than 20 students were in bed with URI, and about 20 others were treated Monday, she said.
Dr. Judson Hair at Clemson University reports a similar occurrence of sick students with some 25 in bed and about 40 others treated since Monday night.
Dr. Hair said he was sending cultures to the State Board of Health for evaluation, but he said he feels ‘sure its some type of flu, probably an Asian strain.’
Tuomey Hospital in Sumter has also reported an increase in URI cases during the week, and the hospital has limited visitors to a patient’s immediate family to stop the spread of the disease.
In Greenville, Dr. Ronald Penick, director of the Greenville County Health Department, said ‘We are beginning to get some flu basically a mixed disease pattern.’
Penick reported a marked increase in school absenteeism as well as in the five industries the health department checks as an indicator of absences. But he said there were no laboratory tests confirming the illnesses were flu.
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CLEMSON PICKS FIRST STUDENT HEAD
The Afro-American, March 14, 1972
Clemson, S.C. (AP) – Joseph Hutchinson of Estill last week was elected the first black president of the student body at Clemson University.
Hutchinson, a 19-year-old industrial management major, polled 658 votes, five more than the 653 cast for his opponent in the run-off election with Samuel F. Crews of Hampton.
There were 1,313 votes cast in the election, including two write-in candidates.
Hutchinson is expected to take office later this spring.
Clemson has an enrollment of 7,615 students of which about 50 are black.
Last spring the University of South Carolina elected its first black student body president.
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WATER AND STILL MORE WATER
Evening Herald, Wednesday, April 26, 1972
If you like a view of the water, you won’t be disappointed at Sadlers Creek State Park near Anderson.
One of South Carolina’s newest state parks and still in the development stage, Sadlers Creek is on a peninsula of the huge Hartwell Reservoir. Spread over 400 acres of land, this comparatively small park has eight miles of shoreline and would be an island except for a neck of land about 150 yards wide which links it with the mainland.
Sadlers Creek is 13 miles southwest of Anderson on state route 187, which connects with U.S. 29 about two miles south of the park. It is also approximately 12 miles from Interstate 85.
Much of the park area was formerly used as farm land, thus providing large open areas which will be planted with grass and beautified. These open areas cover about half the park, but the remainder is heavily wooded almost to the water’s edge. About 40 per cent of the trees are pine and the remainder are hardwoods, including oak, dogwood and hickory.
Several old wagon trails meander through the woods and offer excellent opportunities for nature study and exploration.
A recently developed swimming area in the park includes swimming area with bathhouse, pavilion and rest rooms. The pavilion recently won a national architectural award for excellence of design.
One of the big attractions at Sadlers Creek is the fishing. The park has a paved boat launching ramp from which fishermen can cast off to try their luck with the crappie, bream, catfish, large and small-mouth bass in the reservoir.
Those who tire of fishing in the open water can nudge their boats along the shores of two islands that are part of the park, or even try their luck from the reservoir shore. Bank fishing is a popular pastime and the water is reached from the four miles of paved road that wind through the park.
Walking around the park along the edge of the water is another popular pursuit. The walking is rugged in a few areas, but fishermen have blazed a fairly good route most of the way.
A 25-mile camping area is located on one of the wooded peninsulas. Each site has water and electrical hookups, picnic table and grill. A modern restroom with hot and cold showers is located in the camping area. An Indian burial ground is located near the camping area.
Visitors to Sadlers Creek can take interesting side trips to the City of Anderson, the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are only an hour’s drive away and visible on a clear day; historic Pendleton and the Clemson University Campus.
James Rinehart is superintendent of Sadlers Creek State Park. He may be contacted by writing him at the park, Route 4, Anderson, S.C. or by telephone at Anderson , 226-8950.
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GUNMAN SOUGHT IN GREENVILLE
Evening Herald, Wed., April 26, 1972
Greenville, S.C. (AP) Police say they are looking for a Negro gunman and a white woman who drove the getaway car in a bank holdup.
A Greenville branch of the South Carolina National Bank was held up at gunpoint Tuesday by a Negro gunman for an amount of money officials declined to reveal.
Bank workers said the man walked in, demanded money from the tellers, then ran out.
A witness reported seeing a Negro run from the bank and get in a car in the bank parking lot.
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GREENVILLE MAN CHARGED WITH BANK ROBBERIES
Evening Herald, Thurs., April 27, 1972
Greenville, S.C. (AP) – The FBI says two area bank robberies have been solved with the arrest Wednesday of a Greenville man.
A spokesman identified the man as Obed Jones Jr.
The FBI said Jones is charged with robbing the Hampton-Taylors branch of the South Carolina National Bank of $1,700 Tuesday, and the Donaldson Park branch of the same bank of $1,600 Feb. 11.
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GREENVILLE DOCTOR, SEVEN OTHERS CITED IN HEROINE CASE
The Spartanburg Herald, Friday, May 12, 1972
Greenville – A Greenville physician and seven other persons were arrested Wednesday on charges of selling heroin to an undercover agent of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Dr. William Sloan Gandy, 46, of 105 Nichols St., a physician was arrested on a bench warrant issued May 3 by Circuit Judge Frank Eppes after Gandy and some of the others were secretly indicted by the Greenville Grand Jury.
Gandy is charged with selling heroin to the federal undercover agent on two occasions.
Others who were indicted for selling heroin and arrested Wednesday on bench warrants were Lula Mae Hunter, 23 of 18-C Lullwater Apartments; Lavonia Bowens, 22, of 42 Baxter St.; Willie Lattimore, 37, of 222 Alameda St., and Bennie Lewis Meridith, 20, of Terrace Drive.
Also arrested on charges of selling heroin were Jimmy Pollard, 20, and James Ballenger of Beard Street.
Alfred Dodd, alias ‘Schoolboy’, 30, was arrested on a Spartanburg County warrant charging the sale of heroin.
Federal agents, State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agents, and officers assigned to the Greenville Metropolitan Narcotic Enforcement Unit assembled just after 6 a.m. Wednesday morning and arrests and searches began soon after.
Circuit solicitor Thomas W. Greene said Wednesday afternoon that the system of getting grand jury indictments before persons are arrested has rarely been used in the past.
The solicitor said, ‘In South Carolina criminal charges can be initiated in two ways. One of the ways is to obtain an arrest warrant. This requires a preliminary hearing before the case goes to the grand jury and eventually to trial. When a defendant is arrested on an arrest warrant he is entitled to bond which can be set by any magistrate.
“The other method of initiating criminal charges—which has been seldom used—is to obtain an indictment from the grand jury which allows the arrest of the defendant on a bench warrant with bond set only by a circuit judge.
‘In recent drug cases, in order to maintain as much security as possible, it was determined by my office to initiate the charges by indictment and an appearance bond will be set in open court by the presiding judge,’ Greene said.
Court officials indicated that bond hearings are not likely to begin before Monday.
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CHESTER SCHOOLS COULD BE AFFECTED BY PROPOSED MORATORIUM ON BUSING
Evening Herald, Mon., May 1, 1972
Washington (AP) – Chester County is one of seven school districts in South Carolina that would be affected by President Nixon’s proposed moratorium on court-ordered busing.
Districts under post-Swann desegregation plans that would could (sic) be affected, include:
NORTH CAROLINA: Alamance County, Bladen County, Burlington, Fayetteville, Forsyth County- Winston-Salem, Goldsboro, Granville County, Greensboro, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Nash County, New Bern, New Hanover County, Raleigh, Rocky Mount, Sanford, Shelby and Wayne County.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Aiken County, Chester County, Florence County No. 1, Marlboro County, Orangeburg County No. 5, Richland County No. 1 and Spartanburg County No. 7.
Edgecomb and Robeson counties in North Carolina were the only two districts that would be affected under the category of cases pending in courts but no trial on merits held yet.
Districts where desegregation plans have resulted in racial balance, but which would be included in the moratorium, are Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Salisbury and Winston-Salem in North Carolina, and Allendale County, Florence No. 2, Greenville, Greenwood No. 50 and Newberry County in South Carolina.
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BOBBY BAKER PAROLED FROM FEDERAL PRISON
The Daily News, Friday, June 2, 1972
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania – Former Senate aide Bobby Baker was released on parole yesterday from the Federal Penitentiary in Lewisberg (sic), Pennsylvania. He served 17 months for tax evasion, theft and conspiracy to defraud the government. Baker was sentenced in 1967 on charged related to the misuse of his authority. After several appeals, he entered prison in January of last year. As secretary to the Senate Democratic majority, Baker was a key assistant to former President Johnson when Johnson was Senate Majority Leader. Without parole, Baker could not have been freed before next May. Baker’s career in Washington began when he arrived from Pickens, South Carolina and became a Senate page.
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Finds Lizard With Two Heads
A strange and highly unusual two-headed lizard was found last week by Hubert Chappell, Rt. 4, Pickens, Belle Shoals Road.
Mr. Chappell was working in is garden when he turned over a large rock and the lizard ran out.
It was about two inches long and had a slick brown appearance with a head and two legs on each ends of the slim body.
Mr. Chappell said e tried to find the mate, but with no success.
The lizard was placed in a jar and was drawing varied comments since a two-headed lizard is unusual - to say the least.
Vol 102 No.8 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, July 6 1972
Name Building For War Hero
Another honor is being bestowed upon the late William A. McWhorter, Pickens County ative who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The family has been notified that the South Carolina National Guard Armory in Columbia wil be named in his honor in ceremonies to be conducted at Columbia on Friday, July 21, at 10 a.m.
Only a few months ago a theater and street at Fort Jackson was named in honor of the Liberty hero who gave his ifie during World War II in the Philippine Islands.
Vol 102 No.9 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, July 13 1972
DUKE POWER IS PLANNING NUCLEAR PLANT AT YORK
The Times-News, Hendersonville, N.C., Wed., July 26, 1972
York, S.C. (AP) – Duke Power Company, which found that trying to hide plans for a new nuclear power station was like trying to conceal an elephant in a telephone booth, today confirmed that it will build $700 million nuclear facility in York County.
It will be Duke Power’s third nuclear power station in the Carolinas in an ambitious program to more than double its generating capability over the next 18 years.
The announcement of the York County plant, made jointly by Duke Power and the South Carolina State Development Board, came at a luncheon in York.
The president of Duke Power, Carl Horn, Jr., said construction of the 2,360,000-kilowatt plant is expected to begin in 1974, with completion of its two nuclear units scheduled for 1979 and 1980.
The company first must win approval for the project from the Atomic Energy Commission.
Last week when Duke Power refused to confirm or deny news stories that the plant would be built in South Carolina, the company had not submitted an environmental impact study to the ACE, one of the initial steps required by the federal agency in such projects.
The proposed station, with two nuclear units, will be on Lake Wylie, 19 miles southwest of Charlotte near the South Carolina-North Carolina border.
The director of the South Carolina State Development Board, J. Bonner Manly, said the station will represent the largest investment ever in a single industrial facility in the Palmetto state.
According to a formula used by the Federal Power Commission, the company said, the new facility will prouce (sic) about $16 million a year in local an state taxes and $19 million in federal tax revenue.
Much of the prepared announcement dealt with assurances that the nuclear plant would be safe.
The company has been under fire from established environmentalists and back-yard conservationists alike on alleged lack of safety factors for Duke’s McGuire nuclear power station being constructed on Lake Norman of Charlotte.
The York County facility, to be called the Catawba Station, and the McGuired Station will be identical in size and design, according to the company. Each of Catawba’s two units will have a capability of 1,180 kilowatts, making them the largest electric generating units in South Carolina.
Duke Power’s first nuclear plant, the Oconee Station in northwest South Carolina, is scheduled to begin commercial operation next year.
The company said construction employment for the six-year Catawba Station project was expected to average about 1,500 with total construction payroll estimated $85 million.
The company’s senior vice president for engineering and construction, William S. Lee, said in the prepared announcement the facility will be designed for ‘highest reliability, safety and environmental protection.’
He said the reactor building will have a double shell design consisting of a stell inner lining and a concrete outer shield, and would include additional redundant barriers to hold the release of radioactivity to ‘trace amounts.’
Lee said the plant’s radioactive effect on the environment will ‘be so small as to be practically immeasurable.’ He said a person living continuously at the edge of the plant site would receive no more radiation in one year than a passenger would receive on a single jet flight to California.
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Humane Society Active Since Organization Only Few Months
Almost 500 animals have been received by the Pickens County Humane Society since it's beginning in May of this year.
And not all of these animals have been dogs. There were cats, kittens, ponys and horses among the inventory.
Things at the temporary shelter near the Liberty Water Works are going "full speed ahead" now under the able direction of Buck Dodson of Liberty.
Mr. Dodson is a retired construction worker and is devoting full time to the activities of the society in seeing that animals in Pickens County are treated humanely and that unwanted animals are taken care of.
"We do not go out and get animals," says Mr. Dodson, "But we accept them here at the shelter if people bring them to us."
"The usual routine is to try and place the various animals received each week as soon as possible," he says.
Adoption fees for a dog or puppy are set at $5 each and for a cat or kitten the fees are $2 each
Vol 102 No.11 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, July 27 1972
THERE’S A CREDIBILITY GAP IN NUCLEAR POWER DEBATE
The Times-News, Hendersonville, N.C., Mon., July 31, 1972
Charlotte (AP) – Someone is not telling the truth in the debate over the safety of nuclear-powered electric generators.
Power companies in the Carolinas—Duke Power, Carolina Power and Light Co. and South Carolina Electric and Gas Co.—say the nuclear reactors are the safest and most pollution-free means of meeting the rising regional demand for electric power.
But, as fast as the utilities apply for licenses to build their nuclear generators, a small, shrill and loosely organized band of environmentalists are saying that the nuclear stations are loaded with unacceptable risks.
The first commercial generator to go operational in the Carolinas is the CP&L plant at Hartsville, S.C. Three more nuclear plants are under construction in the Carolinas, and several more are ready to be moved off the drawing boards.
The generators and the reactors that run them are getting larger—Duke’s Oconee, S.C. plant will be the largest commercial reactor in the country until it is surpassed by even bigger reactors now under construction. And, the sites of the power stations are getting closer to the major population centers they are intended to serve.
Both of these facts alarm a Charlotte research chemist named Jesse Riley. He is one of the leaders of the opposition to nuclear reactors.
Riley’s arguments, simply stated, is (sic) that engineering tolerances sufficient for safety in smaller reactors are not being updated as the reactors get larger. And, as the danger of an accident increases, he says, the reactors are being placed close enough to cities to cause major catastrophes.
Lee’s reaction, again simply stated, is that the gauntlet of licensing agencies which Duke Power Co. must run insures that the reactors will be safe. He says his company has the technical expertise and the opposition is either ignorant or misinformed.
The two meet frequently in hearings before various licensing agencies, presenting their arguments. Riley’s side has been able in many instances to delay the utilities’ plans and to modify them. but the power companies have never been told that they cannot build their reactors.
For the layman, the arguments for and against nuclear power quickly become tangled in a welter of ‘facts’ technical terms, hypothetical propositions, and conflicting statements.
Riley, for example, says the bolts used to hold the lid on the reactor building are not strong enough. If the temperature inside the reactor ever increased from a normal 600 degrees to 700 degrees, he says, the pressure inside would blow the lid off with catastrophic consequences.
He also questions the validity of safety standards for radiation, and for nuclear fuel waste disposal.
Lee refused to discuss the bolts in detail, saying the question was in litigation. As a general refutation, he cites the safety record of the industry to date. To pass licensing requirements, he says, the utilities must prove their reactor safety systems would work ‘even if three impossible things happened at the same time: a power loss, an earthquake, and a crack in the reactor.’
The chances of even one of them happening is negligible, Lee says. He calls the nuclear opposition ‘frightened and ignorant.’
The stakes in the battle are high. Lee says Duke has $700 million irretrievably invested in its nuclear program. He warns that a decision to abandon nuclear power would force people to get along with far less electricity than they now use.
The environmentalists say they would be glad to get by with less electricity if it averted the environmental threat they see from nuclear power.
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Big Rattlesnake Killed by Mouse
It's not often that a mouse can kill a rattlesnake, however, L. A. Sloan has the details on the unusual occurance.
Mr. Sloan, his sons, Barry and Larry, together with David and Stanley Harper, were cruising their boat on lake Keowee last Thursday when they spotted a snake swimming in the water. They ran the boat across the snake which probably dazed it somewhat allowing them to get a choke rope around the reptile.
They took it to their home on Meece's Mill Road about two miles from Pickens where it was placed in an aquarium very much alive.
Later in the day, Mr. Sloan found a mouse in the mack yard and placed it in the aquarium, supposing the snake would eat it.
However, the following morning the mouse had turned the tables on the snake and had killed it by gnawing a hole behind it's head.
Mr. Sloan figured the sake must have been dazed by it's capture, since it's not often a mouse can kill a five-foot rattlesnake with 11 rattlers and a button.
Vol 102 No. 13 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, August 10 1972
CLEMSON SHOCKS GAMECOCKS
Palm Beach Post-Times, Sunday, November 26, 1972
Clemson, S.C. (AP) Linebacker Jimmy Williamson batted down a pass for an attempted two-point conversion late in the fourth quarter and preserved for underdog Clemson a 7-6 football victory over bitter intrastate rival South Carolina yesterday.
Clemson moved through the muck and mire of a cold and rainy afternoon for a 63-yard touchdown drive, sparked by the slashing running and pass-catching of tailback Smiley Sanders.
Sanders caught one pass for 12 yards, carried six times for 16 yards, including the last foot needed on 4th down for the score.
South Carolina struck back with about five minutes left as split end Eddie Muldrow took a screen pass and sped down the sidelines for 67 yards to the three. Jay Lynn Hodging carried it in from the three.
But when quarterback Doby Grossman rolled right and fired to a man open in the end zone for a two-pointer. Williamson speared it to the ground.
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SUNDAY BEER SALES PITCH DENIED
The Daily Item, Sumter, S.C., Wednesday, Nov. 22, 1972
Greenville, S.C. (AP) – The president of the South Carolina Beer Association says his group had no part of a former president’s statement that beer dealers are seeking a law to allow Sunday beer sales.
Judd B. Farr said in a prepared statement Tuesday he ‘absolutely refutes’ a statement by a R.V. Clarke of Florence, a former president of the association.
Clarke, a beer distributor, said recently the state’s beer industry has opened ‘an all-out program’ for Sunday beer sales, now barred by law.
Clarke also said that the Nov. 7 election approval by the voters of a minibottle amendment to legalize the sale of liquor by the drink had encouraged such a drive.
Farr, who said he was out of the state when the statement was made and had just returned, declared:
‘We have not been, and are not now, involved in the minibottle legislation.’
He said the association and its president is the ‘only spokesman for a majority of the beer industry in the state.’
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IT’S OFFICIAL: MOVIE TO BE MADE AT CLEMSON
The Spartanburg Herald, Thurs., Dec. 14, 1972
Columbia, S.C. (AP) – Burt Lancaster will film his next movie in South Carolina on the campus of Clemson University, Gov. John West said Wednesday.
The announcement by West followed a visit to Hollywood, Calif., by a delegation from South Carolina, and a subsequent visit to the Palmetto State by Lancaster and his director, Roland Kibbe.
Lancaster appeared with West at a news conference last month and said he was ’80 per cent certain’ South Carolina would be chosen over several other prospective sites for the movie.
The story, set in a small college town, will be filmed on the Clemson campus, the city of Anderson and surrounding areas. West said Lancaster considered the Clemson area an ideal setting for the picture and filming will begin shortly after the start of the new year, West said.
According to West, the actor considered the availability of the South Carolina Educational Television Network a major factor for technical assistance.
The governor said ETV would coordinate state agency participation in the filming.
Technical personnel are expected in South Carolina within the next few days to begin preliminary work on the movie.
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TIGERS’ INGRAM MAY RESIGN
Evening Herald, Tues., December 5, 1972
Clemson, S.C. (AP) A news conference was scheduled this afternoon at Clemson, reportedly for football Coach Hootie Ingram to announce his resignation and for Clemson officials to confirm that The Citadel Coach Jim ‘Red’ Parker will succeed Ingram.
Ingram refused to confirm or deny Monday reports that he had tendered his resignation.
However, several newspapers said the decision had been made, citing informed sources but not naming any source.
Prior to assuming the head job at Clemson in 1969, Ingram was an assistant to Frank Broyles at Arkansas.
He succeeded Frank Howard, then the dean of college football coaches, who had been at Clemson since 1940.
The Clemson stadium has been known as ‘Death Valley’ for years, but it was hardly that under Ingram, whose teams compiled a record of 12-21-0.
This years was another bad one for the Tigers, who had a 47 record, with the only really cause for any exultation coming at season’s end when Clemson edged arch-rival South Carolina, 7-6.
Ingram had not been expected to resign since he had four years left in his contract.
At the beginning of this season, before Clemson had been badly trounced by several so-so teams, Ingram said he was pleased with his recruiting over the past two year.
He had said his Tigers would not be outstanding in 1972, but would be competitive.
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PARKER GOES TO CLEMSON
The Times News, Hendersonville, N.C., Wed., Dec. 6, 1972
Clemson, S.C. (AP) – The Citadel suddenly finds itself looking for a new football coach after James ‘Red’ Parker shifted Tuesday to another of South Carolina’s state-supported colleges, Clemson University.
Parker was announced Tuesday by Clemson as the successor to Cecil ‘Hootie’ Ingram, leaving although under no pressure despite three losing seasons. In fact, Clemson had added two years to Ingram’s original five year contract.
But Ingram told a news conference he is leaving the coaching field.
Parker, coach at The Citadel for seven seasons, will be meeting his successor at The Citadel first thing—Clemson’s opening game this fall is with The Citadel.
Parker told the news conference that his ‘players said they regret I’m leaving, but they told me that come September, I had better get ahold of my backsides because they’ll be coming at me.’
Ingram said although Clemson’s administration and alumni wanted him to stay, he had decided to make ‘the tough decision to leave coaching’ for one of several business opportunities on which he said he will decide soon.
The 39-year-old coach is a native of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was an assistant coach at Arkansas before coming to Clemson in 1969 as successor to the legendary Frank Howard, another Alabama native.
The 41-year-old Parker came to The Citadel in 1961 after serving as head coach at Arkansas A&M, his alma mater, has a 39-34 record in his seven seasons at the state’s military college.
Athletic director Bill McLellan of Clemson said Ingram’s decision to leave was regretted, ‘but I’ll stake my ob we have selected the right man to succeed him.’
Parker said he plans ‘as little upheaval as possible’ in the Clemson coaching staff. He said he will have to work with his Clemson players before deciding if he’ll retain the triple-option offense he has used at The Citadel.
He said recruiting will be his No. 1 priority, and that he plans to recruit ‘between the two oceans.’
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1973
School Children Now Required To Be Immunized
All children entering kindergarten and the first grade this fall must have a "Certificate of Immunization" before school begins, according to Dr. R. W. Penick, Pickens County Health Officer.
"Because of a new state law, children without certificates wiill not be allowed to enter school." Dr. Penick warned.
"This certificate, which ust be signed by a private physician or the health department, shows that a child was received al the necessary immunization for diptheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, measles and German measles. For many youngsters, especially those who have never been immunized, it will take several months to get all the necessary immunizations. Therefore, we urge parents to check with their doctor or the Health Department as soon as possible for these shots," Dr. Penick said.
Vol 102 No.40 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, February 15 1973
Senators Oppose Mini-bottle Bill
The South Carolina Senate last Wednesday tentatively approved by a 32-10 vote the mini-bottle amendment to permit the sale of liquor by the drink in S.C.
All four senators of this senatorial district - Ballenger, Garrison, McDonald and Harris P. Smith - were among the ten who opposed the measure.
Vol 102 No.40 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, February 15 1973
Surgical Miracle Performed On Porter
What is still described by doctors as a surgical miracle was performed in October on a Pickens man, Leland Wallace Porter, of the Twelve Mile community of Pickens County. Performed at the Greenville General Hospital by a widely recognized bone surgeon the operation until now has been a complete success, however, only half the operation has been done. Born in the Praters Creek community of Pickens, Wallace is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Porter. He is married to the former Frances Grant and has one son, MIchael, who is 10 years old.
Wallace said that at the age of 10 he was much too heavy for his age and after a fall he began having trouble with his hips. After suffering with them for almost a year he finally went to the doctor and found that both hip joints had been pulled out of their sockets and surgery was the only method of treatment. Surgery at that time, however, was far more complicated that it is now and his father decided against taking the risk, feeling that the young boy would outgrow his problem.
Time proved that part of that decision was true and after years he was able to walk without crutches, however, the joints only encased themselves in a hard gristle and hardly a day passed for the next 25 years but what he suffered almost unbearable pain.
According to the doctor the leg was spit from the waist almost to the knee. Several hooks were placed to hold the flesh out of the way. The entire hip joint was sawed off and thrown in the waste can, holes were drilled into the lower part of the leg bone and an entire new hip bone with a plastic socket was put in its place. The operation proved to be a complete success and in six days they had him up and giving him physical therapy.
Vol 102 No. 41 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, February 22 1973
Math Professor At U.S.C.
William J. Padgett, formerly of Pickens, has been promoted to Associate Professor with the math department at the University of S.C. He received his Masters degree at Clemson University, later transferring to Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Va, where he graduated in June, 1971, with a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics. He became associated with the University of S.C. in 1971.
He and his wife, the former Faye Swangham, and daughter, Carla, live at 261 Chartwell Drive in Columbia.
Vol 102 No. 46 The Pickens Sentinel March 29 1973
1974
Three Arrested In Bomb Threats
Three persons have been arrested in Easley after telephoned bomb threats were received at Easley high School last Wednesday.
The school was evacuated while police checked the area for a bomb, but none was found. The cases will be heard in Pickens County Court.
Easley Police Det. Jack Aiken said that Mrs. Marilyn Faye Martin, 17, of 308 McBee Ave. in Easley, was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of making bomb threats over the telephone to Easley High School. She was later released under a $5,000 bond.
Vol 104 No.3 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, May 30 1974
Vinson Sentences To Life Term After Pleading Guilty In Death
Virgil Preston Vinson was sentenced Monday, morning to serve two life terms in the state prison after pleading guilty on charges of kidnapping and murder in the disappearance and death last December of 12-year-old Tammy Denice Haynes of Liberty.
Pickens County Court officials told The Sentinel that Vinson would be eligible to apply for parole inn ten years, but that there was no guarantee that he would receive a parole. The procedure would be for Vinson to ask for parole, and send the application to the Pickens County Probation and Parole Office. After a field study by the Pickens office, a report would be sent to the State Parole Board for consideration.
Vol 104 No.4 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, June 6 1974
50-Year-Old Chapman Bridge Destroyed By Fire
The story continued to unravel this week after the historic Chapman Bridge in Keowee-Toxaway State Park was completely destroyed by fire Friday.
Arson experts from the Pickens County Sheriff's Department and from SLED were continuing their investigation Wednesday and Pickens County Seriff David Stone caled for information of anyone who had been seen in the park area prior to the blaze.
The 50-year-old bridge built by Pickens contractor James B. Craig once the link between Pickens and Oconee counties, but it was taken apart piece-by piece and moved to a site two miles south of Highway 11 in the state park several years ago when the Keowee River made way for Lake Keowee.
Vol 104 No.5 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, June 13 1974
First Republican Primary Outlined
Plans for the first Pickens County Republican Primary in history were finalized June 24 and County GOP Chairman Bob Nash was pleased to report. "We have three box managers for each of the county's 26 precincts."
Asked where he had to import volunteer workers for the primary voting from the Clemson-Central area to the parts of the county, Nash said, "No, we were able to find volunteers to help the Republican Party in most every precinct except Rocky Bottom. We appreciate this interest and support"
Estimates of the number who will vote in this initial Republican effort in Pickens County ranged from 500 to 2,000 and Nash himself was unwilling to make a firm estimate.
Vol 104 No. 8 The Pickens Sentinel Thurs, July 4 1974
1975
Governor Edwards Plans Pickens Visit
The dinner, scheduled for the Pickens County Country Club, will be informal and many county officials will be in attendance, according to Clennono Hucks, Pickens Jaycees dinner chairman.
Edwards visited Pickens, Easley and Clemson during his election campaign, flying into Pickens County Airport for one appearance at Pickens City Hall. In the November election the Charleston dentist became the first Republican Gubernatorial candidate in modern history to carry Pickens county. Pickens county was the only county in the Third Congressional District to cast a majority of its votes for Governor Edwards.
Vol 104 No.39 The Pickens Sentinel Weds, February 5 1975
Pickens Announced Farm Service Center
The service center in Pickens, to be ocated at 304 Pendleton St., will be composed of representatives of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the Farmers Home Administration, the Soil Conservation Districts and the Soil Conservation Service. There will be seven full-time staff members.
Vol 104 No.42 The Pickens Sentinel Weds, February 26 1975
Pickens Employs Twice As Many As County For Pickens County Roads
The Sentinel has learned that the State Highway Department spent $595,749.88 on ordinary maintenance for roads in Pickens county during the past fiscal year 1973-1974. But total state spending on county roads has dropped since 1972.
Information provided by State Highway Department Public Information Director Jim Walker at the request of The Sentinel shows the state employed 58 persons in Pickens county during 1973-74 to maintain a primary road system of 214.77 miles and a secondary state road system of 475.47 miles.
In noting that the number of state highway department employes dropped from 62 in 1970-71 to 58 in 1973-74,. Walker pointed out, "These figures do not include HIghway Patrol personnel or employees assigned to driver licensing and motor vehicle license sales activities.
Vol 104 No.43 The Pickens Sentinel Weds, March 5 1975
Library Gains $900 Grant
The Pickens Cunty Library has received a federal grant of $900 for the maintenance and improvement of its magazine collection at the headquarters library in Easley.
The library currently subscirbes to 190 magazines and newspapers, 76 of which are paid for with federal grant funds. The library has added several new subscriptions this year, including Intellect, Ms, Smithsonian and National Tax Journal.
The library has a back file of magazines. Most magazines have been kept for seven years. The news magazines have been kept for seven years. The news magazines date back to 1959. National Geographic goes back to 1936. This collection is useful to students and others who are doing research.
"The library has an inviting place to relax and read magazines." according to James Swan, Director of the Pickens County Library. The public is encouraged to make use of this service.
Vol 104 No. 43 The Pickens Sentinel March 5 1975